Teachers in Māori medium settings

Teachers in Māori medium settings

This page is a resource for kaiako and pouako in Māori medium settings, including Kura Kaupapa Māori, Kohanga Reo and Puna Reo. It also includes research projects related to Māori medium settings, and mentoring opportunities for new teachers.

The Teaching Council of Aotearoa New Zealand

The Teaching Council of Aotearoa New Zealand is the professional and regulatory body for all registered teachers, including those working in Māori medium settings in early childhood education, schools and other related education institutions in New Zealand.

It aims to support the professional status of teachers and high quality teaching and learning through its mandated functions.

engages in research and other professional projects to support the teaching profession

supports the maintenance of professional standards through competence and conduct processes and judicial bodies

approves programmes for Initial Teacher Education.

Supporting Kaiako

As a teacher in a Māori medium setting, you are key to keeping te reo Māori alive in Aotearoa. The Teaching Council of Aotearoa New Zealand supports both you and the wishes and aspirations of those whānau, hapu and iwi Māori who want their tamariki and mokopuna to experience quality learning through the language of their tupuna.

To support Kaiako Māori, the Council:

regularly receives advice from its Māori Medium Advisory Group

maintains a bi-lingual approach to a number of its publications including:

ensures that its professional projects recognise and explore the unique dynamics that exist within a Māori medium setting.

Māori Medium Research Projects

Whakamanahia Te Reo Māori

He Tirohanga Hōtaka research project

The then New Zealand Teachers Council undertook research in 2008 to investigate issues in the initial teacher education (ITE) programmes that prepare teachers for Māori medium settings in schools and early childhood education.

The resulting report, by Haemata Ltd, involved an environmental scan of Māori medium ITE programmes. The report was launched in 2008 by the Teachers Council with a hui of ITE educators and others with an interest in quality provision of ITE programmes for kaiako in Māori medium settings. Key findings of the research highlight a range of practices and issues around establishing and developing te reo proficiency while preparing students for teaching in Māori medium settings.

Let the spiritual and aspirational words of encouragement by Sir Apirana Ngata launch TātaiReo far and wide across the land. We give you its website publication, in the first instance. Secondly, printed booklets will soon be released. The framework of language competencies for graduands of Māori Medium Initial Teacher Education programmes can be requested from the Teaching Council.